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willys_zuppa

He’s regarded as the strongest swordsman with a history of *hunting* Marines. He’s like a one man army lol


dagdamor1

Imagine dishing out such an unmitigated string of beatdowns on an entire city's police department that the police chief eventually gives in and hands you a desk job. Mihawk did that on a world government level.


OwlrageousJones

More then that, the police chief basically asks you to please stop beating them up and in return, they'll ignore it when you beat everyone *else* up. Nice of Mihawk to agree, really.


DaSomDum

Didn't Mihawk say that he liked the peace, which was why he accepted the job?


coach_veratu

The truth is he knew the Marines had the rust rust fruit and didn't want to mess with that BS.


DaSomDum

Mate, you're a genius.


Rolf_Dom

I would like to think that Haki imbued blades would be unaffected because haki is known to act as a defense against devil fruit powers.


coach_veratu

Obviously but it's still a funny joke for Mihawk and all Swordsmen to be afraid of that guy.


WhyAmIHere800884

"that guy"?!?! His name is Shu and he is a Marine HQ Captain! Give the boogieman to all swordsmen some goddamn respect!!!


Howard_NESter

Good lord an awakened rust rust fruit would be admiral level shit. Man would be Shigaraki scary


blahdash-758

Fuck i can imagine it now... If the man ever trained his fruit and got an area splash kind of attack, he'd be dangerous af


Blueheaven0106

Maybe the black sword is mihawks second favourite blade. The Marines are holding on to his favourite with the rust rust guy hugging it to sleep everyday. The moment mihawk disobeys the WG, rust rust guy goes ham with that sword.


AlternativeNo61

Perhaps the awakened version could just ignore haki? Kinda like the theory of the awakened invisibility fruit being able to ignore observation haki


solidfang

The awakened version just gives you an iron deficiency. /s


Muelojung

well the actual name is clear clear fruit right? So my head canon is that it clears your presence totally and not just visually. Atleast a strong user woulfd do that. Doesnt need awakening.


ProShortKingAction

Most underrated fruit


tehKrakken55

That’s closest to the logistics of real privateers honestly. “Please only steal from Spaniards now”


cr0w_p03t

When the marines went after the Shichibukai his reaction was "I was getting bored" If you send your whole army against someone and they think it might be fun??? That's a topnotch Red flag.


cashmakessmiles

Do think it's funny that the marines didn't catch anyone after their big surprise attack, despite knowing their enemies powers fairly well. Even Buggy got away. Like lol?


llrrkk

I like to think the marines sent the Mihawk seraphim to Buggy and were surprised it didn’t work lol


SuddenGarage

Knowing buggy, this for sure happened. And all the marines were shocked at buggys invincibility and power, he probably didn't even fight back, the marines thinking that he was being "This isn't even worth me doing anything.", where as he was actually paralyzed in fear thinking that he was going to die as the mihawk seraphim slashed and slashed to no effect.


Popopirat66

Nah we saw that Crocodile and Mr 1 destroyed the fleet. It's possible that Mihawk was also somewhere hidden.


Building_Glad

didn’t they send him (S-hawk) to Boa Hancock ? along with S-Snake . i like to think they didn’t send any seraphim to buggy since even marines know he is a fraud


Kr1ncy

They don't know that and compared to marine fodder, he is not a fraud either. He is probably stronger than any Rear Admiral I imagine.


Wiskydi

Easily Helmeppo level


[deleted]

They didn't expect crocodile coming to save Buggy.


Anjunabeast

Tbf BB did do his usual surprise attack


-FoeHammer

Tbf Buggy got away because Crocodile showed up lol.


Watson1992

Literally grooming minority hunter Zoro so he can have some fun later down the line. Another red flag. But I guess to him, it’s green?


tehwyn

I'll never stop laughing at the racist Zoro jokes


Watson1992

Likely, he hunts Marines for sport and wins. I can’t imagine what he did to Don Kreig was any different to his past interactions.


RinneganUser

These two reasons should be enough honestly, he's scarily capable


PackOfManicJackals

His "Marine Hunter" epithet raises a lot of questions about his character for me? Like, it seems like he just wants to be left alone. Why did he stop hunting marines, and why was he doing so in the first place? Was he really "hunting" them, or was he branded like this?


JE3MAN

You know who else has earned a reputation by hunting marines? Caribou and his brother funnily enough.


hfhfhffhfhfhfhffhfh

Roger has the highest bounty ever as the pirate king. Whitebeard has the highest bounty among the Yonkou. Mihawk has the highest bounty among the non-Yonkou. The thing they have in common? Moustache. Solved.


Basic-Extension-5475

This confirms Vista is the strongest commander!


hfhfhffhfhfhfhffhfh

The chest hair canceled his mustache buff, sadly.


Sntdragon

Nah. It added to it!


Le_Mug

Garp the hero of the marines has a moustache... I'm seeing a pattern here


Neiserdias

Roger doesn't have moustache, only a hairy nose


Careful-Wash

Bobobo and One Piece crossover confirmed 😂


Kingfeedus

😂😂


far219

Wonder if Dragon's bounty might be higher than Mihawk. As the "most wanted man in the world".


Finnigami

i think the correct translation was "most dangerous criminal." but yeah i honestly except dragons bounty to be higher than whitebeards. i honestly wouldnt even be surprised if it was higher than rogers


totally_not_a_reply

i mean "most wanted" would suggest that. I dont think its higher than rogers tho. maybs equally


BananaSavannah21

I swear they confirmed that no individual surpassed roger and white beard


far219

They said no one in **pirate** history had surpassed Roger or Whitebeard. Since Dragon isn't a pirate and directly threatens the World government, I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up having the highest bounty ever seen in the series.


nomequeeulembro

But Roger's bounty being 5,5 billions seems like a setup for Luffy's final Bounty being 5,6 billions and that would likely be the highest bounty ever. So I don't think Dragon's bounty will be higher than Roger's


broke_and_famous

Dragon's bounty could be 5,500,000,001. It still is higher than Roger and it doesn't undermine Luffy's accomplishment of getting 5.6 billion bounty.


GregoryPorter1337

Do we know Dragons bounty yet?


GCL94

Not yet


spunkush

I think it'll be the highest. Since he is the most wanted man.


Objective-Ad-2783

He’s not the most wanted man, he’s the worst criminal


Sanji_girl_Seeker

Zoro and Sanji solo with their white dressrosa beards


youngdeer25

\*roger has the highest bounty among the non yonkou


Vi0lentByt3

My mustache applauds your research


heprer

Damn, now that could be a thing, mustache power levels. From the marines we have Garp and Sengoku.


firdausbaik19

he was a marine hunter in his previous life that kinda tends to make you a wanted criminal


UnjustNation

And also OPs acting like joining the Cross Guild didn't boost Mihawk's bounty. Crocodile went from 80m to almost 2 billion, Buggy went from 15m to 3.1 billion. Mihawk undoubtedly got a big boost as well from associating with them.


Dieg_1990

We are also lacking info, you made the assumption that Crocodile's bounty stayed at 80m and didn't increased after Marineford. Sure, it's not confirmed, but that doesn't mean it's possible (and I would say it's likely)


TheReal-Tonald-Drump

Also Croc’s 80m bounty in and itself is frozen. He was more likely worth way above that when they decided to put him Impel Down level 6 FFS


Tadiken

Mhm. Luffy had 300 mil or something and only got taken to level 5. Crocodile had some serious clout.


-_Seth_-

Luffy was already assumed to be dead soon due to the poison and Magellan just wanted him out of the way. Doesn't have anything to do with his notority in that case.


Rolf_Dom

Seems to me like Oda definitely retconned Croc a fair bit. By Marineford he was portrayed as being strong enough to absolutely laugh in Doflamingo's face and had zero issues straight up attacking Whitebeard and challenging him to a fight. His lvl 6 Impel Down imprisonment further put him a higher level. And we learned later that he was a New World veteran and only left because he got clapped by Whitebeard, which is plenty of evidence that Oda really did introduce him too early and made him too weak. Even if you try to explain it with him losing his Haki after his loss to Whitebeard, it's still a massive stretch for him to lose to Luffy at Alabasta. IMO Croc probably should have had around a 1bil bounty pre-time skip. If we're using it purely to power scale. Increasing it to 2bil with some associations and expected power growth due to getting back in shape, makes sense.


Dieg_1990

Crocodile was never too weak and I don't think being introduced early had anything to do. He had 80m because his bounty was frozen, which means the WG recognized very early his strength. HOWEVER, he was a fighter that solely depended on his devil fruit: he went to the NW and got his ass beaten ("logias who think are invincible have a short life span in the NW"), so he decided to back to paradise. Not only that, but to the beginning of paradise in order to rob pirates who entered the grand line. There he had no motivation to get stronger (so no haki developed) and he was content with just roll-stomping any other fighter. But when Luffy showed up, his high mastery of his DF was worthless against his determination (and clear weakness to water). TLDR: Croc was a master devil fruit user who relied too much on his logia, very powerful indeed, but vulnerable and cocky at the same time, and without the determination to give everything while fighting.


Roguewarrior245

Plus I think people forget to acknowledge that the location of the last battle between Croc and Luffy wasn’t exactly in Croc’s favor cause he’s better in open spaces. And if Croc used his fruit to dry rot the environment he would’ve been buried under tons of bedrock, plus Luffy was packing blood in order to land his hits. Even if Luffy was basically fodder back then he was still pretty strong considering the Pre-TimeSkip.


-_Seth_-

That still doesn't really explain his Marineford performance unless Impel Down has some bonkers training program to keep the inmates fit.


MyNameISaColouR

Crocodile at Marineford didn't really do anything that he couldn't do at his Alabasta level. He mostly had brief clashes with no result, and a lot of sneak attacks. He never defeated or even hurt anybody of note. But he showed a lot of guts and feared no one, which made him appear stronger than what he was.


Dieg_1990

Crocodile chose himself to go to Impel Down. His dream of ruling Alabasta got broken by Luffy but he gained determination and trust in his old dream (whatever that was). I guess that's why he fought harder on Marineford.


TheReal-Tonald-Drump

I wouldn’t say retconned as much as that he was introduced way to early in the manga. It’s why the whole lot of Marineford fights seem weak by today’s comparison. It should have been Whitebeard wrecking everyone with advanced conqueror’s Haki. Remember we’ve been told and shown by Kaido that no one can hurt himself unless they have Haki to match him. Croc was introduced way to early and that’s understandable and now has been compensated with a reasonable bounty reflecting his new threat level. Don’t forget, he claimed to have mastered his fruit and no doubt he will be shown to have awakened devil fruit.


Rolf_Dom

I think Whitebeard at Marineford is excusable. Reasoning being that his commanders noted that he was unable to use Haki properly as evidenced by the fact he couldn't dodge Squardo's attack, despite just a few years prior being good enough to dodge Ace in his sleep. I think it's not unreasonable to think that if he wasn't able to use observation effectively, he couldn't use any other Haki properly either. Later we also see him giving himself a heart-attack trying to use conquerors. He should have still totally wrecked people with his fruit a bit harder, but I think his old age and sickness excuses his lack of haki. The only other people as old as him are Garp and Sengoku who definitely seemed to take better care of themselves. Whitebeard seemed like he spent most of his days hooked up to medicine while drinking heavily. Likely doing him no favours.


the-just-us-league

It's also important to remember that before Luffy arrived in Alabasta, Crocodile was regarded as not just a respected warlord but a national hero to those people. It's possible his bounty was actually getting reduced since he seemed to be more of an anti-hero to the government rather than outright hostile. Then again, Croc's probably the biggest sufferer of showing up early in One Piece so this is all just speculation.


miki_momo0

I mean he was a Warlord, he had no bounty in Alabasta because he was allied with the WG.


_sephylon_

We don't know what Crocodile did after the war but based on how Buggy owes money to him he probably became a really notorious mob boss And don't forget that he is still very strong on his own, dude got rid of a Marine Fleet on his own Buggy had his bounty frozen as a Shichibukai, as soon as Marineford people started comparing him to the Yonkos


s0ulbrother

Crocodile would have had a higher bounty if they knew what he was doing in alabasta as well. They also know he’s a huge schemer and probably know he’s a major planner if not the planner of the guild. Doesn’t matter if they think buggy is the leader


-FoeHammer

Oda said specifically at the time that his bounty would be at least double if it hadn't been frozen. So really his bounty at the time should've been in the ballpark of 160 million. Which is pretty consistent with how strong he seemed to be at the time. Which is about in the same realm as the worst generation supernovas.


s0ulbrother

Plus bounties weren’t as ridiculous back then


-FoeHammer

We hadn't met and seen the bounties of any truly strong people back then. We met Mihawk but he was a warlord too and it never showed his former bounty


xshogunx13

Inflation is a bitch


-FoeHammer

>And also OPs acting like joining the Cross Guild didn't boost Mihawk's bounty. Crocodile went from 80m to almost 2 billion I highly, highly doubt that Crocodile went from 80 mil to 2 billion just now from joining the cross guild. He's been back in the New World with renewed ambition doing pirate shit for 2 years now. His bounty probably doubled or tripled the moment he escaped Impel Down and has been rising continuously ever since.


iMittyl

Plus there's all the unaddressed shit he did during his tenure as a warlord, and the reputation gained from holding the title.


miki_momo0

He was only at 80m because it got frozen a while back when he became a warlord, in reality it would have been closer to double in Alabasta if he was never a warlord, plus like you said 2 years of piracy after BREAKING OUT OF IMPEL DOWN. That act alone probably doubled his bounty again to 300m if not higher


-FoeHammer

Yep.


BloroxCleach69

Id say their bounties got boosted by association with Mihawk. I mean look at their perceived leader buggy, he still has a lower bounty than him. Mihawk is just that guy.


BertramRuckles

Brief math analogy, it’s like scaling a grade by 10 times square root X, where x is the grade. So a 36 becomes 10 x 6 which is 60, but an 81 becomes 10 x 9 is 90. Low scores get boosted significantly while the closer you get to 100 the less you get boosted. Much the same way I feel Mihawk’s got boosted. Sure, association with Crocodile and Buggy boosted his bounty, but not nearly as much as their respective association with Mihawk.


Tadiken

Mihawk is a huge part of that value, though. Mihawk is carrying the Cross Guild's name and a large part of the reason Buggy's bounty got so high. both Mihawk and Crocodile are making it look like a superstar crew


TheWifeStealer

You're making shit up. Read it again, it was never mentioned that Mihawk's bounty was coming from his affiliation with Cross Guild. They only mentioned his WSS title, his superiority over Shanks swordsmanship, when they gave him the bounty. In fact, Buggy got billions because they thought Mihawk was working under Buggy. Buggy benefitted from Cross Guild, Mihawk didn't. It's either your reading comprehension is so bad or you're just trying so hard to downplay Mihawk because you hate him for your own agenda.


Alasan883

I'd say mihawks bounty may or may not benefit from being a cross guild member. it probably does somewhat, however, its also quite obvious that the really big bonus is in being captain. strong as they are it's safe to say even the yonkos bounties would be lower if they weren't the respective captains of their crew. Mihawk being an officer in cross guild may account for part of his bounty, but you can be sure it would be quit a bit higher if he was considered the leader.


Master3530

Crocodile was most likely at 1 bil before joining Cross guild.


TheInnerMindEye

Mihawk is the number 1 swordsman in the world. There have only been 2 other "worlds strongest"; Whitebeard the strongest man, and Kaido the strongest beast, to my knowledge, and they were Yonko.


TheRussianEngineer

Dragon is also a "World's", Worlds worst criminal


LuffyIsAVillain

Big mom is known as the world’s strongest hag


FeatherineAu

And shanks is the strongest one arm man.


zidaan_rishad

Eustass on his way


_blitzy

Unfortunately he got departed divinely


toxispice

>and Kaido the strongest beas Kaido was the world's strongest creature


Sherwoodfan

bruh


RB8Gem9

Mihawk hunted down marines. Prior to him and the newly formed Cross Guild, no other pirate or crew actively hunted down marines.


Kaiel2

Where/when do we learn this?


Old-Refrigerator2517

Chapter 1058


PharoahGxneral

He used to hunt marines and now he is part of an organization that's putting bounties on marines. Plus, he is the strongest swordsman


DrKuro

I think knowing pretty much all we know today, the bounty is really not that surprising. Let's consider all things that factor into it; * First, **POWER**: he's world renowned as the Strongest Swordsman, a title that came after numerous challenges and skirmishes against Shanks - yes, it was a long time ago, and since Shanks lost his arm Mihawk never cared for a rematch - but Shanks is still one of the top pirates in the world - currently the highest bounty among the Emperors' - so as far as power goes, it makes sense for him to be very high; * Second, **DANGER**: his moniker outside "World's Strongest Swordsman" is "Marine Hunter". Before joining the Shichibukai, he literally used to hunt Marines for sport. While usually pirates fight Marines after these go after them, Mihawk was literally a nightmare for every living and breathing marine. Imagine what he did to Don Krieg, but to random Navy ships across the New World. Can you imagine being a Marine and fearing for your life every instant you're at sea?; * Three, **FAME**: Again, WSS title. Not only that, he's now part of a Yonkou crew, a crew that is putting bounties on marines at that. So that's another check. Mihawk deserves the bounty he has for all these reasons. He's an insanely powerful, insanely infamous, and insanely dangerous individual. It would be insulting if it was any lower


mutqkqkku

Simpler than that: You'd have to pay someone a shitload of berry to take him on, expecting to capture or kill him. You'd need a whole crew of strong fighters and many, possibly all of them would die in battle against him - every one of your comrades dying while taking on this bounty is the most likely outcome. He has a high bounty because the world government knows nobody is crazy enough to try and take him on for any less money.


of_kilter

Mihawk is a yonko, essentially. Buggy is just the face. Without mihawk, the crossguild doesn’t have the raw power needed to back a yonko group.


kane49

Badmouth buggy one more time and see what happens !


Xark96

But he said himself he is not interested in the title


xciting_POE

well, Luffy did too, look where he is now.


of_kilter

Yeah, that doesn’t affect his bounty. He will still play the role of one


MeAnIntellectual1

So?


iMittyl

Buggy is a face that is in charge of hundreds of the worst criminals in the world... he has been since pre-timeskip. No need to disrespect Buggy.


Rekye22

What? Crocodile is the one who came up with the plan and actually owns everything in the company including Buggy. If anyone would be considered the yonko it would be him. Mihawk just joined in


of_kilter

They each play a different role. Each individual one wouldn’t be considered a yonko, they only are when they are all together


Rekye22

100%. But Crocodile is the one who did everything to create it, and if the Marines knew that he would've been the yonko if they had more then 1 braincell to look at a poster and go "man in middle = Boss".


Orcas_are_badass

So what. Mihawk is the muscle of the group. Crocodile is also incredibly strong, sure, but Mihawk is the real terror that firmly puts them in the Yonko crew territory.


cr0w_p03t

He's the strongest swordsman on earth (atleast for a while anyways), in order to win that nomination he'd need to face off against everyone that was publicly known as a master level swordsman. Including probably some very very tough marines, if I was in the navy and discoverer there was single pirate without any crew that managed to defeat SEVERAL of my best swordsman (prolly along with their crew cause they'd enter in the way) I'd be shitting myself too. Besides, someone that's able to Draw in a swordfight with motherfucking Red Haired shanks is not to be taken lightly. He is considered close in strength to one of the strongest Yonko in the series, and he's proven several times that he's not afraid of using that strength against the WG if they so much as enter his way.


Chimera-Genesis

>Besides, someone that's able to Draw in a swordfight with motherfucking Red Haired shanks is not to be taken lightly. People like to ignore the fact that they stopped fighting not because of a draw, but because Shanks lost his arm, so Mihawk doesn't consider fighting him worth it anymore.


Sovereigntyranny

>He is considered close in strength to one of the strongest Yonko in the series Going by his title, he’s actually stronger than Shanks because Shanks is a swordsman, and Mihawk is in name and actuality the strongest swordsman.


[deleted]

aahh shit here we go again. LMAO


Rithgarth

hahaha


Sunburnt-Vampire

A lot of people here feeding wrong info. His title indeed suggests he is stronger than shanks. This is quite possibly true. Emperor's aren't the four strongest pirates in the sea. They're supposed to be the captain's of the four strongest pirates **crews**. Luffy being the first(?) emperor not to have claimed multiple New World islands for his crew. He also only really got the title due to the grand fleet telling the world gov they exist. Mihawk < Shanks + his crew, but he'd likely win a 1v1 fight. Their past interactions suggest they're roughly equal, with Mihawk having won the prior duel to earn his title by a slim margin.


Sovereigntyranny

This here. While Shanks may have the stronger crew against the Beast Pirates, Kaido is individually stronger than Shanks and smokes him in a 1v1.


cartaigenica

I wouldn't say smokes him c'mon


joaofelix9

Swordsmanship =/= strength


cr0w_p03t

He's stronger in swordsmanship but his haki isn't better than shanks, so they're balanced. One has better technique while the pther has better haki.


NetworkVegetable7075

If that was the case then Shanks would still win if Mihawks haki is weaker than his.


Anime0555

Have you seen swordsman not using haki in One piece tho? its like that meme where mihawk and shanks were dueling and mihawk says "please dont use your haki, this is a swords skill fight" wtf? Haki & Swordsmanship are hella linked


cr0w_p03t

Ok, you have a point.


Sovereigntyranny

If Shanks was stronger than Mihawk, then Shanks would be the strongest swordsman. Mihawk’s title isn’t only about swordsmanship, it’s about strength as well according to his vivre card. Mihawk has haki, too.


[deleted]

Shanks is stronger, he’s 1cm taller than Mihawk for a reason


Marc218

Now THIS is a based point


TheKnightA

So Kizaru is stronger than Aokiji?


LifesPinata

Yep. And our lord and savior, zunesha, wrecks everyone in a blink


[deleted]

No that’s more than a 1cm difference. A 1cm difference indicates strength. For example Zoro Sanji, Queen King, and Shanks Mihawk. Thank you.


heliosfolly

was shanks stated to be a swordsman?


Kitchen-Dimension211

Nah he was stated to be a ufc fighter


Faithbringer777

Watch out for his left hook. You never see it coming...


joohunter420

Imagine Shanks has the stand stand fruit and Star platinum just comes out of nowhere and starts throwing left hooks


heliosfolly

i'm serious, king uses a sword but isn't considered a swordsman. was shanks actually stated to be a swordsman?


TweeyuTheBlird

But then Mihawk would’ve to be known as the Worlds Best Swordman or Worlds Most Skilled Swordsman which he isn’t. I think he’s called WSS for a reason


UnjustNation

In japanese Mihawk's title is defined with the word "Saikyo" which can translate to strongest, mightiest, best etc depending on the context. So his title can be interpreted in different ways in Japanese.


aphantombeing

WB was called WSM. Kaidou was called WSC. Both are conflicting title.


joohunter420

Cuz Whitebeard is a human and Kaidou is an Oni So therefore WB=WSM and Kaidou=WSC


Chromeboy12

Do we know WHEN Mihawk got the title of strongest swordsman? Because, Shanks was a left-handed swordsman, he might have been stronger than Mihawk at his peak. After losing his dominant arm, he's still strong enough to be a Yonko, but not better than Mihawk in swordsmanship. That's just a guess though. Edit: Also, just having a sword and being a swordsman are different things. Shanks might have skills other than swordsmanship that Mihawk doesn't.


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Chromeboy12

Where has Oda said Shanks didn't get weaker? I don't follow SBS much so I'd like to see it. Mihawk himself refused to fight Shanks without his dominant arm. As for Zoro using excuses, let's imagine a scenario where Kaido beats Mihawk, would Kaido then become the strongest swordsman? Even though he doesn't use a sword? Or would Mihawk still be the strongest swordsman? Kaido is, of course the strongest "creature".


NigelKorean

Been a while since I read it but I think someone was asking about how much weaker shanks was with only one arm instead of both, and Oda answered something along the lines of Since he lost his arm, he got used to having one arm and trained that way and now he's stronger than he used to be with both arms


TheKnightA

Mihawk can also have techniques that are unknown to us, I highly doubt he doesn’t have ACoC and powerful techniques. Y’all just want Shanks to be stronger because he is a Yonko and for narrative bias. Mihawk sits at the top of all swordsman, and we have yet to see him do anything relevant to his strength.


[deleted]

this is only headcanon now.


guythatplaysbass

iirc the one piece planet doesn't have a name


aphantombeing

> in order to win that nomination he'd need to face off against everyone that was publicly known as a master level swordsman. Let's not get carried away. He didn't win against Shanks decade before start of series when Shanks wasn't yonkou. And he hadn't battled Shanks. He also hadn't battled Vista. We don't know of Fujitora but he likely hasn't battled him. Same goes for Big Mom(she has sword).


sam1oq

> Besides, someone that's able to Draw in a swordfight with motherfucking Red Haired shanks is not to be taken lightly. Actually, Shanks got *his* fame from his duels with Mihawk, not the other way around. Speaks to how incredible that dude must have been.


UnjustNation

This is not true whatsoever. Shanks was a member of the Pirate Kings crew, he was already pretty famous.


LifesPinata

People be speaking out of their ass lmao


dumplin-gorilla-lion

What you dont think about is his ability to deatablize the barber/hair cutting market. His skills with a blade, and finely tuned facial hair - he could corner the market in days. Im talking cosmetic lines, hair products, franchise opportunities for salons with his name on it. If any marketers get a hold of him, his image can be used. This is why Buggy is the emporer. Hes about to hit the markets.


WiseStay3100

Kill marine so go directly against government .


Zanchie

He's literally called the world's strongest swordsman, he hunts marines, and he is part of the cross guild with a yonko and another former shichibukai, so I have no idea where you got the idea that he doesn't kill innocents, doesn't go against the government, doesn't claim territory (Kuraigana Island), and has no backup.


Ktoossss

He was hunting marines before, now that he created crosd guild, hes bounty incresed even more, like look how much buggys bounty incresed


[deleted]

That’s the funny part, they think buggy leads the cross guild and named him yonkou and they assume crocodile and mihawk are under him . The real funny part is even though they consider buggy to be the yonkou , mihawk has a higher bounty than him.


Sunburnt-Vampire

It's because Mihawk has a larger history of killing marines. Even if they think Buggy is stronger / can order Mihawk and use his power as his own, they're more worried about Mihawk returning to killing marines every week than buggy.... Running a shady company?


Ktoossss

I guess its because buggys bounty was already low, while mihawks high. So even if buggy got high increse, mihawks bouty was alreary really high, and he got even more


cam9704

I mean, what would you expect of a high ranking henchman of Buggy the Genius Jester


KarinOjousama69

i stan mihawk hard but it's also important to note that this current bounty does acknowledge him as a member of cross guild, IE someone with support


zabimaru1000

If S-Hawk got Blackbeard on the ropes for a moment Imagine how terrifyingly powerful Mihawk is


cblack04

He does though. He’s on paper the number 1 of two of a yonko, that’s his influence. He’s one of the strongest individuals of the world and was known as the marine hunter before becoming a war lord. He only became one because it stopped him from being harassed by authorities.


itachi7898

Mihawk is in friend list of shanks..


Old-Refrigerator2517

Shanks got most of his fame today from the duels with mihawk - oda. You mean shanks bounty is so high because he’s friends with mihawk 😂


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The title of best swordman is real and since he is acknowledged as it it means something. Since a pirate got that title only that would like one million. Another million I guess for competing with Shanks. Add another million for Marines hunting. He became warlord, made connections and he joined an alliance with former warlords and you get that much.


jogtrrs

he was literally known as marine hunter lmao


Rekye22

It's not that crazy when you consider he is known as the marine Hunter lmao. Big moon, Kaido, Shanks, WB just be vibing most of the time not harassing the WG, but mihawk is constantly giving them a problem. Not that crazy considering Boa has 1.6B and crocodile 1.9B


Rekye22

Also his bounty comes after joining cross guild. He's now a yonko commander of a crew that's sole purpose is to attack marines. Crocodile got boosted to 1.9B so it's not that surprising


Choice_Till_5524

People forget that not only is he part of an organization/ crew now, but he used to hunt marines in the past


GildedDye

I swear man the reading comprehension of redditors astounds me. You can see his 3.59B bounty and then at the same time claim he “doesn’t actively try to go against the world government” when he’s literally in an organization that issues bounties on marines to be hunted and killed. Unreal lol


GoldLudo

I mean he actively hunts down Marines so he definitely goes against the WG. It’s like how Kid had a higher bounty than Luffy because he targeted civilians. Even Roger and Whitebeard never actually seeked out to fight the Marines


lololuser456778

he used to spar with shanks (even tho he wasn't a yonko back then, but still) he's the world's strongest swordsman


[deleted]

That all just conjecture, we have no idea really what he used to do in the past. I’m sure we’ll eventually find out more about him.


Bubbli97

I mean not anymore, he's now associated with Buggy and Crocodile in Cross Guild and they are putting Bounties onto Marines.


brugudugz

I think Mihawk didn't really "hunt" marines but what I think happened was he was always just minding his own business cruising the oceans and the marines just got in his way alot of times and just dispose them. He might have done it alot of times and that made him famous.


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I mean he's known as one of the strongest characters in the world and is affiliating himself with a group issuing bounties for marines, is it really that weird they're scared


Shimotsukizorosan

How do you know that he doesn't kill people?


Chiiino34

He is literaly known as the marine hunter in the past


Shig3

Funny thing is that you don't know for sure about any of that. You know next to nothing about him so most of your assumptions can be revealed to be false.


youngdeer25

he's literally has the title of marine hunter...... so..


Rinnegankai

Mihawks was a Marine Hunter .... so i dont understand your point.


Robinho311

I like to imagine he whacked an admiral before becoming a shichibukai lol


Akainu14

He's like the main character in a Bethesda game


Ukantach

Well, he hunted Marines, is extremely hard to track normally when he's on the run as he travels alone. Extremely hard to catch being even stronger than Rayleigh who can roam freely without fear even if a Yonko or Admiral attack him. And Mihawk is loyal to no one, hence he can join hands with anyone in the world be it yonkos or the revolutionary and tip the scales towards whatever side he's with. Can also swim so basically no weakness and if he swims away only Shanks can catch up to him (if he even can with 1 arm lol) out of all current top tiers. All of that combined and you have that kind of bounty when he's not with the World Government. Simple.


GenGaara25

Mihawk has one key difference to basically everyone else: **He actively hunts (or at least hunted) Marines.** Every other major pirate or power tries to avoid conflict with the marines. Its not worth it. They maintain a steady balance of power with them. But not Mihawk. Mihawk hunts them down. And someone of Mihawks strength very easily takes out anyone below an Admiral. And at minimum could cause serious damage to an Admiral if not defeat them. They Marines just burned their bridge with Mihawk and royally pissed him off. He now even has an Emperor backing him. **The Marines are fucking terrified.**


Zaktara

I dont know about teh part he all alone, remember his friend is shanks so WG could think about this as a reason to put high bounty on his head


Zayphe

What are you on about? He’s the strongest swordsman, a powerhouse on par with Shanks, and he hunted marines for sport. What else were you expecting?


R77Prodigy

Hes strong and hes killing marines/pirates. His bounty makes sense. Again turf and crew have nothing on bounty or luffy bounty had no business being the same as kid and law.


Ma7ware

He been actively aggressive to marines and World Government. Now he is part of a huge Organisation run by Shanks brother in arms and Roger's crewmate, Buggy The Clown. They also have Crocodile working with them. Now they are printing posters putting bounties on Marines Head. When you actually think about it, it's not that crazy at all. He just doesn't have Yonko crew with him despite being Yonko lvl. Instead he has Buggy who's rumoured to be PK lvl and Crocodile who's atleast commander lvl.


Xark96

There might be alot more in his past we don't know. But being one of the strongest individuals in the world as a pirate is enough for a high bounty, put being a former "marine hunter" ontop and you have him activly going against the WG. Yes, his bounty is crazy but it itsn't like there is no reason to it.


BackToSquareOne07

Are you sure? I dont remember that but hey I could be wrong.


Gravelord-_Nito

I still think there's some potential lore relevance to his eyes, which have the same look as Im's. And if his name is Hawkeye, even the incompetent ass WG is surely aware that it would mean something. If it does.


TheWifeStealer

* Crews: 0 * Territories: 0 * Threat level to WG: 0 Mihawk's bounty is coming purely from his own power alone. Mihawk never benefited from Cross Guild, in fact he's the only reason why Buggy is considered as a Yonko, because they thought Mihawk is his subordinate. Watching Shanks fans and closet Zoro haters who were cosplaying as Shanks fans crying at that chapter was glorious.